It’s not that expensive. For the cost of 60 miles of highway, we can have a 10 million-book digital library available to a generation that is growing up reading on-screen. Our job is to put the best works of humankind within reach of that generation. Through a simple Web search, a student researching the life of John F. Kennedy should be able to find books from many libraries, and many booksellers—and not be limited to one private library whose titles are available for a fee, controlled by a corporation that can dictate what we are allowed to read.[16]
.. It’s not that expensive. For the cost of 60 miles of highway, we can have a 10 million-book digital library available to a generation that is growing up reading on-screen. Our job is to put the best works of humankind within reach of that generation. Through a simple Web search, a student researching the life of John F. Kennedy should be able to find books from many libraries, and many booksellers—and not be limited to one private library whose titles are available for a fee, controlled by a corporation that can dictate what we are allowed to read.[16]
.. He began by having conventional shipping containers modified as climate-controlled storage units. Each container can hold about 40,000 volumes, the size of a branch library. So far, Kahle has gathered about 500,000 books. He thinks the warehouse itself is large enough to hold about a million titles, with each one given a barcode that identifies the cardboard box, pallet and shipping container in which it resides. A given book may be retrieved in about an hour, and are not to be loaned out but used to verify contents recorded in another medium
Intertwingled: Chapman University: Afternoon Session # 1: 4/24/2014
Brewster Kahle: Hanging Out With Ted
Ted was building a system for writers. I had been building a system for readers. (3 min)
Ted Nelson Month: to do ZigZag
Ken Knowlton:
spent a lot of time on a farm (23 min)
to provide the tools to manage our conectivity (26 min)
No idea is an island (32 min)
The internet is going to make us more dependent on fragile interdependent systems.
Is it going to be competition for what’s left or cooperation (39 min)
God’s book of mathematical books
Andrew Pam
When you’re looking at world simulation games, destruction is the first way to have an effect (1 hr 7 min), hence the shooter games
Dick Heiser
Xanadu needed examples of how a 100-page Request for Proposal could be implemented. (1 hr 26 min -1 hr 28 min
Computer Lib is an advanced book for beginners.
The purpose of computers is human freedom.
Ted was like Jesus driving the money lenders out of the table (righteously offended) (~1 hr 31 min)